On 29/04/12 11:20, Gordon Joly wrote:
In the course of editing an article today, I came across these Objects.
THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO
APPLY THEM FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR
ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK
Not quite carte blanche. Surely such charitable purposes does limit them
to spending the money on things that would be deemed charitable in UK law.
WSC
On 29 April 2012 11:20, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
In the course of editing an article today, I came across these Objects.
Not quite carte blanche. Surely such charitable purposes does limit them
to spending the money on things that would be deemed charitable in UK law.
Well, quite!
The main purpose of Trustees is to make sure the organisation only spends
money in pursuit of its charitable objectives. Which means
On 29 April 2012 13:30, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
Not quite carte blanche. Surely such charitable purposes does limit them
to spending the money on things that would be deemed charitable in UK law.
Well, quite!
The main purpose of Trustees is to make sure the
On 29 April 2012 13:46, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote:
On this issue I would argue along the same lines as I did on accepting
in-kind donations: We have trustees for a reason - to exercise their human
wisdom on things that are not absolutely black and white! If they aren't
given the
On 29/04/12 13:57, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Just to clarify, Gordon wasn't quoting WMUK's objects.
So true. I was a bit off topic.
Sorry about that!
Gordo
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On 29/04/12 13:12, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Not quite carte blanche. Surely such charitable purposes does limit
them to spending the money on things that would be deemed charitable
in UK law.
WSC
This reminds me on the recent proposals of the UK Government to put a
cap on charitable giving,
We've been discussing just that in the office - however, the general
profile of donations to WMUK means that we're not really affected by the
cap on charitable giving. The vast majority of people who donate give less
than £20 - there's just an awful lot of people who do so.
Richard Symonds
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Objects of a charity.
On 29/04/12 13:57, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Just to clarify, Gordon wasn't quoting WMUK's objects.
So true. I was a bit off topic.
Sorry about that!
Gordo
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